Tems: 'Prison was a once in a lifetime experience that I feel honoured to have had'

Tems is on the way home from the gym. It’s the only time we can fit in a phone call for her ES Magazine cover interview. In two days she will be flying to New York for her debut performance on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show. Then it’s back to London where she is preparing to launch her debut album, Born in the Wild, which will be followed by a world tour starting with a headline show at the Eventim Apollo and spanning all the way from America to Australia.

‘Turn right here,’ she tells the cab driver, before apologising for interrupting our conversation. She pauses: ‘Wait, what was the question again?’